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| Authors: | David J. Scheffer John Hutson |
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October 24, 2008
We know from our own professional experiences that there are risks in both diplomatic initiatives and military operations. The most logical negotiating position, strongly supported within the Washington bureaucracy, sometimes can be challenged so successfully by other governments during international talks that a search for compromise may emerge as the wiser course. American diplomats employ the same strategy with their counterparts who arrive at the table with seemingly unbendable instructions-and yet, eventually, common ground is usually found. The greatest sin during negotiations is succumbing to dogma from extremists back home that American interests can only be protected by taking unyielding and exceptionalist positions.
In Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, experts from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution propose a new, nonpartisan Middle East strategy drawing on the lessons of past failures to address both the short-term and long-term challenges to U.S. interests.
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